Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 17:41:47 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: word delimiter (\>, \b) and regex-lib in less Message-ID: <200201021641.g02Gfld62224@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <20020102170930.A24563@bs13.bsag.ch>
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Hanspeter Roth <hanspeter_roth@hotmail.com> wrote:
> In the Linux installation of less there is a word delimiter (\<, \>)
> available (like in vim). This is especially convenient when searching
> for small words.
> The Bsd installation doesn't seem to have some kind of word
> delimiter, neither \<, \> nor \b.
> I tried to play with the less port and tried different
> regex-libraries. But none of them doesn't seem to support one of
> those word delimiters.
>
> Is there some alternate library with some other word delimiter?
> Does the Posix regex library habe a word delimiter? Which one?
> Maybe the one of the regexx port? If yes can one link the less port
> with the regexx library? How?
From the re_format(7) manpage:
the bracket expressions `[[:<:]]' and `[[:>:]]' match the
null string at the beginning and end of a word respectively
Which works fine with the standard "less", out of the box.
Regards
Oliver
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